diff --git a/apprise/Apprise.py b/apprise/Apprise.py
index 264522dd..b610d432 100644
--- a/apprise/Apprise.py
+++ b/apprise/Apprise.py
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ class Apprise(object):
         status = len(self.servers) > 0
 
         if notify_type and notify_type not in NOTIFY_TYPES:
-            self.warning(
+            logger.warning(
                 'An invalid notification type (%s) was specified.' % (
                     notify_type))
 
diff --git a/apprise/AppriseAsset.py b/apprise/AppriseAsset.py
index 41ef452b..2dfc2104 100644
--- a/apprise/AppriseAsset.py
+++ b/apprise/AppriseAsset.py
@@ -61,7 +61,8 @@ class AppriseAsset(object):
         'apprise-{TYPE}-{XY}.png',
     ))
 
-    def __init__(self, image_path_mask=None, image_url_mask=None, theme=None):
+    def __init__(self, theme='default', image_path_mask=None,
+                 image_url_mask=None):
         """
         Asset Initialization
 
@@ -89,7 +90,7 @@ class AppriseAsset(object):
 
         """
         re_map = {
-            '{THEME}': self.theme,
+            '{THEME}': self.theme if self.theme else '',
             '{TYPE}': notify_type,
             '{XY}': image_size,
         }
@@ -108,7 +109,7 @@ class AppriseAsset(object):
 
         """
         re_map = {
-            '{THEME}': self.theme,
+            '{THEME}': self.theme if self.theme else '',
             '{TYPE}': notify_type,
             '{XY}': image_size,
         }
diff --git a/cli/notify.py b/cli/notify.py
index f096757c..e23a45e5 100755
--- a/cli/notify.py
+++ b/cli/notify.py
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ import logging
 import sys
 
 from apprise import Apprise
+from apprise import AppriseAsset
+from apprise import NotifyType
 
 # Logging
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
@@ -16,59 +18,60 @@ formatter = logging.Formatter('%(asctime)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s')
 ch.setFormatter(formatter)
 logger.addHandler(ch)
 
+# Defines our click context settings adding -h to the additional options that
+# can be specified to get the help menu to come up
+CONTEXT_SETTINGS = dict(help_option_names=['-h', '--help'])
 
-@click.command()
+
+def print_help_msg(command):
+    """
+    Prints help message when -h or --help is specified.
+
+    """
+    with click.Context(command) as ctx:
+        click.echo(command.get_help(ctx))
+
+
+@click.command(context_settings=CONTEXT_SETTINGS)
 @click.option('--title', '-t', default=None, type=str,
               help='Specify the message title.')
 @click.option('--body', '-b', default=None, type=str,
               help='Specify the message body.')
+@click.option('--notification-type', '-t', default=NotifyType.INFO, type=str,
+              metavar='TYPE', help='Specify the message type (default=info).')
 @click.option('--theme', '-T', default='default', type=str,
               help='Specify the default theme.')
-@click.option('--image-url', '-i', default=None, type=str,
-              help='Specify the image URL.')
-@click.argument('urls', nargs=-1)
-def _main(title, body, urls, theme, image_url):
+@click.argument('urls', nargs=-1,
+                metavar='SERVER_URL [SERVER_URL2 [SERVER_URL3]]',)
+def _main(title, body, urls, notification_type, theme):
     """
-    Notify all specified servers
+    Send a notification to all of the specified servers identified by their
+    URLs the content provided within the title, body and notification-type.
 
     """
-    if not (title and body):
-        logger.error('Neither a message body or title was specified.')
-        return 1
-
     if not urls:
-        logger.error('You must specify at least one server URL')
+        logger.error('You must specify at least one server URL.')
+        print_help_msg(_main)
         return 1
 
+    # Prepare our asset
+    asset = AppriseAsset(theme=theme)
+
     # Create our object
-    apprise = Apprise()
+    apprise = Apprise(asset=asset)
 
     # Load our inventory up
     for url in urls:
         apprise.add(url)
 
+    if body is None:
+        # if no body was specified, then read from STDIN
+        body = click.get_text_stream('stdin').read()
+
     # now print it out
-    apprise.notify(title=title, body=body)
+    apprise.notify(title=title, body=body, notify_type=notification_type)
 
     return 0
-#    """\
-#    Usage: apprise [options] [URL ...]
-#
-#    Send notifications to a variety of different supported services.
-#    See also https://github.com/caronc/apprise
-#
-#    URL                       The notification service URL
-#
-#    Options:
-#
-#    -h, --help                show this message
-#    -t TITLE, --title TITLE   Specify a notification title.
-#    -b BODY, --body BODY      Specify a notification body.
-#    -i IMGURL, --image IMGURL Specify an image to send with the notification.
-#                              The image should be in the format of a URL
-#                              string such as file:///local/path/to/file.png or
-#                              a remote site like: http://my.host/my.image.png.
-#    """
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':